Mohammedreha Abajihad Abafogi, BA, MSc, PhD Fellow

Affiliation: Jimma University, Ethiopia

Mohammedreha Abajihad Abafogi is a PhD Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation at Jimma University, Ethiopia, and a researcher whose work is fundamentally rooted in understanding how environmental degradation and climate-induced displacement create conditions of extreme vulnerability that human traffickers exploit. His current research focuses on building economic resilience for disaster-displaced women at risk of human trafficking in Ethiopia, a project that directly addresses the root causes of trafficking by creating sustainable livelihood alternatives for vulnerable populations. This work positions him at the intersection of climate adaptation, gender empowerment, and human security, contributing to the prevention of trafficking through resilience building. His expertise on the climate displacement–trafficking nexus was recently recognized through an invitation to serve as a peer reviewer for The Lancet on human trafficking in humanitarian, public health, and climate emergencies. He is a GAHTS member and FAO Family Farming Knowledge Platform contributor. He has MSc in GIS and Land Resource Management from Madda Walabu University.

Research Interests:

  • Environmental drivers of displacement and trafficking vulnerability

  • Climate-induced migration and exploitation risk

  • Human trafficking in humanitarian, public health, and climate emergencies

  • Community resilience as trafficking prevention

  • Displacement risk and vulnerability assessment

  • Economic resilience for disaster-displaced women at risk of trafficking

  • Spatiotemporal land use/land cover change modeling

  • Satellite remote sensing (Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 optical, Landsat)

  • Vegetation health monitoring (NDVI, EVI, SAVI, LSWI)

  • Vulnerability and risk mapping using GIS

  • Extreme climate index analysis

  • Climate change adaptation in smallholder farming systems

  • Agro ecology and family farming

  • Climate-smart agriculture

  • Sustainable land management across diverse agro-ecologies

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